The exhibition traces how religious imagery took hold in South Asia and beyond through serpent spirits and wide-hipped ...

Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist Stories of merchants are notably absent in Brahmin scriptures but are widespread in ...

Manabendra Ghosh's "Tired Buddha", made of clay, is a metaphorical narrative of time and contemplation. These works of art, created in a rare blend of ancient pottery styles and modern language ...

This disapproval turned into a tidal wave on May 5, two days before the planned auction, with the intervention of the Indian ...

The Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room is reopening at the Brooklyn Museum, where it features both familiar treasures ...

But no one tells us there is not just one Buddha; that there are dozens ... Devdutt Pattanaik is the author of 50 books on mythology, art and culture.

Buddha, a Florida panther who resided at the Tallahassee Museum, was euthanized due to declining health and multiple fractures. He lived at the museum for over a decade, exceeding the average ...

Sacred relics of Lord Buddha returned to India after a month-long pilgrimage in Vietnam, attracting 17.8 million devotees. The journey deepened cultural ties and showcased Vietnam's Buddhist ...

This concept, although seemingly modern, echoes a core principle the Buddha articulated over 2,500 years ago in the Degha Nikaya 26: Cakkavatti Sutta— The Discourse on the Wheel-Turning Monarch. While ...

PAC members said they have filed a complaint against MC demanding removal of all the encroachments, illegal RCC retaining wall constructed over Buddha Nullah and to create a green buffer zone ...

There, I saw a monument of the Buddha inside a temple and decided to pray. I must admit it is odd: a Filipino-Chinese praying to the enlightened one in Vietnam despite being a Catholic his entire ...

“The Piprahwa stupa has the maximum claim to being an original site – containing the original ashes of the Tathagata, the Bhagwan Buddha himself,” says art historian Naman Ahuja. Sotheby’s had listed ...